Association Between Changes in Perceived Neighborhood and Cognitive Performance Within Healthy Aging in Neighborhoods of Diversity Across the Life Span (HANDLS) Black Adults
Alexa C. Allan, Alyssa A. Gamaldo, Roland J. Thorpe, Jennifer D. Roberts, Michele K. Evans, Alan B. Zonderman · 2026
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Allan and five colleagues study how views of one's neighborhood link to thinking skills in twenty twenty-six. The study focuses on Black adults in Baltimore who are part of a long term aging study. How people see their area can shift as blocks change over time. The team asked if such shifts track with test scores at the same point in time.
The sample held five hundred ninety-two adults, with a mean age near fifty-six years. More disorder in one's area linked to worse scores on attention and visual orientation tests. More social cohesion and social control linked to better scores on memory and reasoning tests. After strict checks for multiple tests, only the disorder link held firm. The authors say the work is a springboard for more study on place and cognition.
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| CREATOR | Alexa C. Allan, Alyssa A. Gamaldo, Roland J. Thorpe, Jennifer D. Roberts, Michele K. Evans, Alan B. Zonderman |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 35 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |